On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 18:19 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:

How do you disable gnome-panel on centos 6?

Before I could at least kill gnome-panel on centos 5, however on centos 6 even kill -9 gnome-panel restarts it again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Panel

GNOME Panel is a highly configurable launcher and taskbar for GNOME. It forms a core part of the default GNOME desktop.

It is being replaced in GNOME 3.0 with GNOME Shell, which only works with the Mutter window manager.